Zhang Xueliang

Zhang Xueliang (3 June 1901-15 October 2001) was a General of the Army of the Republic of China and the son of Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin. He led resistance to the Japanese after his father's 1928 assassination, and he helped both the nationalists and communists against the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War, leading to him serving prison terms on both Taiwan and mainland China.

Biography
Zhang Xueliang was born on 3 June 1901 in Taian, Liaoning, China, and he was educated by private tutors. He developed an interest in aircraft while studying in Japan, and he developed an air corps for the Fengtian Army during the chaotic battles of 1920s China. When his father Zhang Zuolin was assassinated by the Japanese in 1928, he joined the Kuomintang, and he became known as a womanizer and opium addict while also being known as the powerful ruler of northeastern China. He supported Chiang Kai-shek against rebellious northern warlords and communists, and he fought against the Imperial Japanese Army during its 1931 invasion of Manchuria. In 1936, he helped in the kidnapping of Chiang, forcing him to form a united front with Mao Zedong's Communist Party of China against Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and he was arrested for the kidnapping afterwards. He was held under house arrest until 1989, and he died in Honolulu, Hawaii in 2001.